Stormbringer

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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I'm even more sorry that this way of speaking is so utterly prevalent in science reporting. That, plus the tendency of people from other specialties cough astrophysicists especially cough to wax lyrical and ascribe amazing powers to 'ev
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
By "readily available at the command line" - have you forgotten that the context of this discussion is for a language to use for a first year programming course? A not insignificant portion of the people taking those courses will not be com
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Well, in Australia at least everything you post to Facebook is (according to the courts) public knowledge anyway. // not sure if this is a reflection of the techno-cluelessness of the legal system, or a very astute/cynical technical assessm
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
This is interesting, but I keep seeing articles that reduce down to "kiss up to everyone on LinkedIn or your career will suffer". It is the Orwellian overtones implicit in these kind of glowing references for LinkedIn that I find disturbing
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Well, I wanted to know what IDE JSLint was an expansion for, so I did some poking around... it's an online tool. Meh #1. Next up I thought I would take a snippet from the linked stackoverflow discussion and see what JSLint made of it: 127.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I loved this comment: "The policy when I went to school was to start everyone with LISP. That way, if they never got past CompSci 101, they wouldn’t be capable of impersonating a real programmer. " -- Dave Edelhart
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It's not free, they charge you 30% for the privilege of violating you tenderly at their whim. (sorry, couldn't resist) It's also not free as in GnuBeer either, since as a general rule they generously decline to explain the reverses in polic
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
The problem with finding programmers that are good at the social stuff (phone support, dealing with customers) is that the great conceit of programmers is: That knowing things is more important than knowing people Hence (most good) progra
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
How can you possibly disagree? If we accept the initial premise that designers who are also engineers are as rare as ninja-unicorns, then surely the logical thing to do is to turn them into managers?
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Canada doesn't count! ;-p edit (since it won't let me reply) - sorry, I meant Canada doesn't count as 'Outside the US'. Bad humour, no biscuit.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Monetising Java has always been problematic. Linux/GPL people have always been stroppy. Making sure everyone has the latest version is a hard enough problem even without politics. The take home lesson is that getting your language onto ev
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I don't mean to sound petty or ungrateful for the link, but is there some other source of this, one that is visible outside of the US? Even better would be if it didn't require Flash.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I was in the UK when they had their lowedt voter turnout since World War 2. A couple of months later 9/11 happened and Tony Blair was leading the country into war. All of a sudden a lot of people who hadn't voted were saying "hang on... w
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Well, the Iraq war is interesting. The US sold a bunch of chemical/biological weapons to the Iraqis, and then years later used that as a pretext for war, being fairly sure that they would find them. Problem was, they weren't there any more
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
That was my initial reaction too. But then I saw that the real problem is that they were gambling on derivatives to fund critical infrastructure projects. The obvious solution is more bailouts. The libertarian solution would be to let th
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I thought they gave up on Silverlight. Is this the last hurrah? Or are they not going down without a fight?
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Back when the competing methodologies were waterfall and RAD they used to say that 50% of all software projects failed. When Agile became super popular they started saying that 70% of all software projects failed. Hmmm....
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Agilistas like to pretend that if you're doing waterfall you can't ever go back to the previous step. Whereas in practice, if you find something wrong or confusing with the specification, you just hunt down the business analysts and ask the
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
You don't get it. That they were blatantly ripping off someone else's software, and THAT is what gives them the right to label them a rip off. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors, where the Freshdesk guys are trying to pretend that i
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Last time I checked, having a feature list where you compare your product with theirs, complete with little green ticks and all, it probably means your software is playing in the same space as theirs. That's the real essence of the "rip of
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Just because I like tools that are powerful AND easy to use doesn't mean I'm stupid. A good tool should be a force multiplier, not just another damn hurdle.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It kind of depends on your definition of "naive" For instance one 'perfectly naive' implementation of F(n) would be: return 1.6 ^ n; or whatever your language of choice's equivalent is (depending on your syntax)
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
The thing I notice about Google+ is that the only thing people use it for is talking about Google+. This strikes me as a bad thing. Didn't Orkut and Wave and other 'failed' similar services from other companies have the same problem? Limi
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It seems to me like the only people hotly awaiting the arrival of the iPad killer are the tech pundits and people who desperately want to see Apple fail. Normal people don't care. And that is why the tablets fail.. the market doesn't care,
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Try writing a To Do list. In addition to being a proto-plan, there is also the feeling of accomplishment that comes from ticking thigns off the list. I think that with procrastination, one of the other elements to it is how far away the "p
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
His sentence makes perfect sense. You just need to level up and put some points into reading comprehension. Go talk to the dudes with the giant yellow exclamation marks over their heads. That will help. Additionally - meditate on the fol
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I know they can build an ALU inside minecraft, can they build a 3D printer inside minecraft yet?
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Rest was a really big deal in the Java web-app world for about a year... It was back when early versions of Struts were 'the designated alternative', and in the bad old days of J2EE and JAX-RPC. Then Java EE 5 came out, which solved large c
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
The problem with pleading guilty, is that then everyone thinks that you're guilty.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
http://www.jinfo.org/Nobel_Prizes.html Has more info on this. Not sure how accurate/up to date the stats are.

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